'Revolutionary Threads' by Bobby Sullivan undermines its own attempts at revealing some historical truths with its use of questionable source material.
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Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Downstairs’ Starring Tyne Daly, Tim Daly
Theresa Rebeck's 'Downstairs' starring Tyne Daly and Time Daly is a drama-mystery, a thriller with sly, humorous overtones. As usual the playwright's particular and complex characterizations startle with their humanity and angst.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘The Hello Girls,’ a New WWI Musical by Peter Mills and Cara Reichel
A smart, crisply written book by Peter Mills and Cara Reichel links a sequence of superb musical numbers, recounting in the best musical-theater tradition the little-known story of the U.S. Army's WWI female telephone switchboard operators.
Read More »Event Review: CONjuration Convention, Atlanta GA
CONjuration s a convention about magic and fantasy, loosely based around Harry Potter.
Read More »Interview: Meg Rodgers from ‘Every Christmas Story Ever Told (and Then Some!)’ at the American Shakespeare Center
Rodgers and two other actors will play over 30 different characters in this fast-paced Christmas comedy opening on December 4.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Two by Friel’ at the Irish Repertory Theatre
How director Conor Begley fashions and melds the two plays together just takes one's breath away. The acting ensemble is extraordinary. Bagley's economically staged direction enhances their creation of life and ineffable soulfulness, and he does his hero Brian Friel justice in these superlative renderings.
Read More »Christmas Song Characters Hold Annual Christmas Party
It is not known to many people, but the characters from many popular Christmas songs get together every year on December 1st to have their own Christmas celebration.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Thom Pain (based on nothing)’ Starring Michael C. Hall
Any day, give me the existential crisis of attempting to make sense of the uncertainty of consciousness, of shifting memory, felt emotional loss, pain, and the clown's struggle of existence.
Read More »Music/Spoken Word Review: ‘The Al Purdy Songbook’
'The Al Purdy Songbook' proves once and for all that poetry in the right hands is relevant to everyone and anyone.
Read More »You’ll Probably Get Hacked: Here’s What You Should Do
It’s naïve to believe that you’ll avoid getting hacked in your lifetime. The average person has about a dozen online accounts, and each is susceptible to hackers.
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